By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
One of the challenges that the world faces today is to do with the attitude of self-entitlement in people. Historically one would say this attribute is more pronounced than ever before in all spheres of people’s life. From how people manage their finance, all the way to being shown the truth in humanity but refusing to accept as natural as it is. More people now demand what they are not entitled to, what they have not worked for including wanting to inherit what is not their inheritance.
So many things have gone astray as people demand what they have not worked for bringing imbalances in various aspects of life. Even beggars on whatever level and platform they are using, have lost compassionate behaviour as they now beg with a demanding poise in most cases even threatening the givers, their benefactors into submission. Self-entitlement has made others go to the extreme in confusing human rights to mean that anything as long as they want it can be taken forcefully.
The quotes this week are from a book that advocates the path to surrendering one self to the most powerful force that is the source of all life, God the creator. I am sure that the few selected quotations from this book listed below will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. Read and enjoy:
LETTING GO – THE PATHWAY OF SURRENDER by David R. Hawkins. M.D., Ph.D.
“Many of us have been raised to correlate worldly and even spiritual accomplishment with ‘hard work,’ ‘keeping our nose to the grindstone,’ ‘living by the sweat of our bow,’ and other self-stringent axioms inherited from a culture steeped in the Protestant ethic. According to this view, success requires suffering, toil, and effort: ‘no pain, no gain.’ But where has all the effort and pain gotten us? Are we truly, deeply at peace? NO. There is still the inner guilt, the vulnerability to someone’s criticism, the wanting to be assured, and the resentments that fester.”
“We learn that the answer to the problems we face is within us. By letting go of the inner blocks to it, the truth of our inner Self shines forth and the path to peace is revealed. Other spiritual teachers have emphasized the cultivation of inner peace as the only real solution to personal difficulties, as well as collective conflicts: ‘Inner disarmament first, then outer disarmament’ (The Dalai Lama); ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ (Gandhi). The implication is clear. Because we are all part of the whole, when we heal something in ourselves, we heal it for the world. Each individual consciousness is connected to the collective consciousness at the energetic level; therefore, personal healing emerges collective healing. ……”
“……. These states and capacities are within all of us. They do not depend on any outer circumstance or personal characteristic; they do not require belief in any religious system. No single group or system owns inner peace, as it belongs to the human spirit by virtue of our origin. This is the universal message of every great teacher, sage, and saint; ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you,’ Dr. Hawkins says frequently, ‘What you are seeking is not different from your very own self.”
“…… The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life.”
